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THE REVIEW.

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TSHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:

One Year, in the county fl.00 One Year, out of theoounty l.io

Inquire at Office lor Advertising Rate*

Wauneta*is a little town in Chautau qua county, Kansas. There is a doctor there who is proprietor of the drug store, justice of the peace and constable. He sells the boys liquor, and then ar rests and fines them for drunkenness.

An impressionable Paris banker, the owner of immense riches, died of grief on hearing that he lost everything in the world except

100,000

francs. His

pauper brother, on inheriting that sum from him, died of joy.

England also has been enjoying a big strike. The engineers to the number of 120,000 "went out" for an eight-hour day, without any reduction

wages.

Latest advices indicate a protracted struggle with the result in doubt.

More than 1,000,000 barrels of flour, equivalent to

4,500,000

bushels of wheat,

were shipped from the United States to Japan during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897.

The effete rice-eating Orien

tals apparently are hungry for more substantial food.

Thermometers in the Klondyke gold fields are guilty of some very- "low down" tricks. Fifty below is regarded as rather moderate for January. This reads nice these hot summer days, but the actual experience is not so pleasant as many warm blooded people can testify.

j: In Italy only half of the criminals escape detection, according to Signor Ferriani, who has written a book on "Clever and Fortunate Criminals." He asserts that while

9,000

crimes, whose

r'i authors were not detected, were coinmitted in France in

1825,

the yearly

number of such crimes is now

80,000.

The money lender^ who have in the past found a profitable field in South 'Dakota are said to be complaining that the farmers of that state have within four years paid off

$50,000,000

of their

indebtedness. One company that desires to place

$75,000

in South Dakota farm

mortgages can not find takers for more than one-third of that amount. The same company reports that out of 1,500 farms loans in that state they have not had over fifty foreclosures in seven years.

An Illinois farmer of many acres, died a few years ago, leaving to his three daughters his rich farm. Practical women these, they undertook the oversight of the 11,000 acres, dividing the tract into small sections and letting them out to tenants. Their plans have turned out well, says Womankind, and they have been favored with good crops. They

have further added to their tillable land 400 acres which had been uuder water to do this drainage a ditch of a mile and a half long was dug. But like all business that succeeds, this is personally looked after by its heads, and if these women do not work with their hands they do with their heads.

"Innocents" who may hereafter try to "see the sights" in Chicago are to be protected from the snide games and swindling schemes, which in the past have so often snared their unwary feet—

in so far as the police can take care of them at least. The chief of police of the great city has issued an order declaring open war on bucket shops, slot machines, clock games and all the swindling devices that have so long disgraced the streets of Chicago, and his emphatic announcement that the order will be vigorously enforced has carried consternation into the ranks of swindling speculators and the sporting frater--i nity in general.

j' The Cleveland Leader says that of 876 divorce cases instituted in the Common Pleas Court of that county during the year ending July only ninety-five

781

were begun by men. /-wife

cases the

was the plaintiff. These figures 'tell the same story as those recently pub-

lished regarding divorces in this State, •'-i They show one of two things—either

that men are, as a rule, worse than wo

men, giving much more frequent cause for divorce, or else that men are much more patient and enduring of the ills of matrimony than women are. The fact *that a great majority of divorces are granted for desertion, drunkeness and cruelty on the part of the husband indicates which is the true alternative. _____________

United States Judge Phillips, of the .Western district of Missouri, has just rendered an important decision "under the Sherman anti-trust law of

1890

$500

t'le

cour*

for member-

•. "ship. There were 143 members. The

cruc'al

question in the case was wheth-

er or not the cattle dealt in at Kansas {City stock yards came under the inter.'.state commerce provisions while they ..

:Were

yarls at that place. The

that they did, and granted

an injunction covering every point of the case. The decision dissolves the exi: change.

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•THE NEW ELDORADO.

The stories now being printed about the untold riches that may be found on the Klondyke river banks in far-off Alaska, just over the line in British territory, will remind many of our older citizens of the tales of a similar character that came overland from California away back in

'49

and

'50.

Then, as now,

the public mind became excited and thousands made the weary trip to the gold fields only to be disappointed in their hopes or succumbed to the hardships by the way, before they reached the longed-for goal. Thousands, indeed, did accumulate a competency in a comparatively short time, hundreds it may be became wealthy, while dozens perhaps acquired millions that made them famous the wide world over. Doubtless the scenes of those times will now be repeated on another and more remote stage of action, but it must be admitted that the outlook for a larger percentage of failure is much better in the present craze than in

'49.

So inac

cessible and remote is the region whence came the haggard miners with the sacks of golden nuggets to Seattle, and so rigorous is the climate for a greater part of the year, that the chances of ultimate success and a happy return to civilization for those who brave the perils of the way and the dangers of the life that must be led are not especially good. Yet the golden mirage that now looms across the northern sky will lure many a man away frcan home and friends and present happiness never to retqrn. Young men of vigorous physique, a love of adventure and plenty of cash to use as a capital to start on, might do worse than to go. They will at least find new scenes and strange experiences that should in after life prove valuable as reminiscenes at least but the man with home ties and without any especial hardihood would do well to consider the matter very carefull and— stay at home. The craze is, however, spreading as the stories of the probable extent of the gold fields are confirmed by later arrivals and by the opinions of government experts, who have visited the Klondyke country. There seems to be no doubt that fabulous wealth is lying around loose, "out of doors," up there, only waiting to be picked up in chunks and be transported to mints for coinage. The exodus of fortune hunters has already commenced. It will increase with the opening of navigation next spring. The final results of this last

crusade can hardly fail to be beneficial to business in the United States especially upon the Pacific coast, in any event.

PROSPEROUS ENGLAND.

Acocrding to recent advices the British Isles are at present enjoying an almost unprecedented era of prosperity. The recent visit of the United States Bimetallic Commission has brought to light the fact that the English people have no interest in our financial altairs except in so far as they may affect the commerce between the two countries. There is no desire for any change in the financial system of England. "Hard times," as we understand them, are not afflicting England at all, although there is the want and suffering that is characteristic of the overcrowded centers of population. There was never a more prosperous period than the present. Every laboring man is getting good wages and has plenty of work. Every capitalist is making a profit upon his investments. The revenues of the government during the last quarter of the financial year, ended on the

1897

$10,000,000.

mak

ing it illegal for persons to combine in .restraint of commerce between the h:' $tates. The decision is against the .Traders' Live Stock Exchange, of Kan-

"v"''*sas City, a sort of close trading corpor-p-'ligation which charged

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ON THE KLONDYKE.

NUGGETS BY THE BUCKETFUL AWAIT THE ADVENT OP THE

ARGONAUTS.

Seattle, Wash., Special: The news of the rich gold strikes in the Klondyke fields of Alaska has created intense ex citement all along the coast, and thousands are preparing to go to the diggings. Seeing this, the Alaska Commercial Company sounds a note of warning. The season is drawing to a close in the gold fields snow begins to fall in August, and in September the great Yukon River will close to navigation. The Commercial Company owns the only boats on the Yukon in which supplies can be taken to the mining camps, and supplies can be got in only for

10,000

the season. The company estimates that there are now

30,000

3,000

1,895

30th

June, show an increase of

and reach a total of

quarter, as compared with

$7,028,895,

$127,079,300

for the

$120,050,505

for the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

The organization of new mercantile and manufacturing companies during the first six months of

and the in

crease of capital of existing companies represent a total of

$384,850,000,

which

shows that there is plenty of ready money among private capitalists. The increased investment in breweries alone amounts to nearly

$50,000,000,

the manufacture of bicycles

and in

$30,000,000.

The amount invested in other manufacturing industries exceeds

$125,000,000.

The investments in new hotels, restaurants and saloons represents nearly

000,000, and nearly

W. E. Curtiss in a

recent letter to the Chicago Record says that several members of the ministry are personally believers in a double standard and the bimetallic clubs are increasing in umbers, although the agitation has been suspended for several months. The only possible inducement for Great Britain to join the United States and other countries in the recognition of silver would be to gratify our people, but the present government is not inclined that way. Lord Salisbury, the prime minister, is determined in his opposition to silver, and is not at all friendly toward the United States since the rejection of the arbitration treaty. It is not believed that he would even^bmit the question to parliament, and if he should do so it would be voted down by a tremendous majority. Everybody says that there is not the slightest sympathy with the movement in the house of lords, and in the house of commons such a proposition would upset the government.

miles down the Yukon to

St. Michael's, and at St. Michael's boarded the Portland with their treasure, bound for homeland and intent upon changing their dust and their nuggets into the minted, milled coin of their country. On the voyage the gold was stored in the captain's stateroom. The little safe in the corner was packed full of bags of gold, and the remainder, that the safe could not hold, was placed in three boxes.

When the steamer came to this port the miners put their bags on their shoulders and walked down the gang plank in the presence of a vast throng of Seattle people, assembled to see the great pile of treasure from the rich fields of the far north. A miner with only

$5,000

in his bag easily carried his

fortune. Twenty thousand dollars in two bags is a good load for any stalwart man, no matter if he has worked where the mercury falls to

had to hire help to get their precious possessions to a safe place of storage in Seattle.

One of the "foolish" strangers who gave no consideratinon to the advice of the old miners is Frank Physcator. Last autumn he went from Borada, Mich., to Alaska, and thence to Klondyke. He was one of the first to discover gold in the fabulously rich placers of the new Eldorado. He employed nine men and in three months' time took out from two claims

$96,027.

$500.

$10,-

$100,000,000

has

gone into mercantile establishments, while the new amusements amount to nearly

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Tons of tiold Already Ticked Up With Untold Millions Yet In Sight-Pointers About the Great Alaskan Eldorado.

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their way to the gold fields, and warns those who are thinking of going that if they go now they will get there, if fortunate, just at the beginning of winter, and that in the nine months that must elapse before the next season opens there will be great privation and even starvation for many. ^Nevertheless, the excitement of the Klondyke mines is on thfe increase, and hundreds of people are preparing to sail for Alaska. The steamer Portland, which brought down over $1,000,000 in gold, is ready for her return trip, and will be crowded to her utmost capacity. Conservative men who have been in the country claim that there is room for hundreds of men more in Alaska. They admit that all the fields in the vicinity of Klondyke have been taken, but every river in Alaska is, in their judgment, filled with gold, which can be secured if the men are willing to risk the hardships. Gold in boxes, pold in bags gold in blankets, fine gold and coarse gold, gold nuggets and gold dust, the yellow treasure of the Klondyke diggings, which came in yesterday from the north, has set the people wild. A ton and a half of gold was a part of the load of the steamer Portland that arrived from St. Michael's, Alaska, and with

the several owners, sixty-eight in number, some with

$5,000,

000,

000

No.

pounds of gold there were

•{•"&!:•

small gulches were also staked and recorded. About Sept.

On March

out

$300

and

25,

some with

$10,-

$50,000,

a few with

$100,-

and over, but all with gold. With the product of their work for a season in the new "diggings," the richest in surface gold ever discovered, these miners made the long voyage from Dawson City, the new golden town,

$500

degrees

below zero. Two men used all their strength in carrying a strapped blanket in which was about

$50,000.

with the big fortunes,

The few

$100,000

and over,

He still owns

the claims, but having nearly

Any man who starts

on the perilous trip without sufficient equipment runs the risk of fearful suffering and even death. It is declared that there is no danger of food giving out. The North American transportation and Trading Company will not allow a man take any food north on the Portland, but it will guarantee to furnish him food for a year at less than $400.

He can secure such a guarantee

before leaving this city, so that starvation will not be one of the difficulties to stare men in the face.

Thefe can be no doubt that the late strikes in the Yukon valley are the richest ever known. Instances are common where pans of gold have yielded over

$100,

and occasionally much more.

The miners say that all the territory where the rich strikes were made have been staked, and that so far as they are concerned it is useless for any one to think of making locations. But then there are other streams, all of which are known to have gold-bearing bars, though it is extremely doubtful if their richness will equal the famed Eldorado and Bonanza creeks of the Klondyke.

A letter received from Dawson City under date of June

18,

contains many

interesting facts. The writer, Arthur Perry, a well-known citizen of Seattle, says: "The first discovery of gold in the Klondyke was in the middle of August, 1896, by George Cormack, on a creek emptying into the Klondyke on the south, called by the Indians Bonanza. He found

$160

to the pan on a high

rim known as Forty Miles. He went back with two Indians and t&ok out $1,400 in three weeks with three .sluice boxes. The creek was soon staked from one end to the other aad «li the

a man by the

name of Whipple prospected a creek emptying into the Bonanza and named it Whipple creek. He shortly atterward sold out and the miners renamed it Eldorado. "When I first reached the nev» camp I was invited by two butcher boys, Murphy Thorpe, of Juneau, ana George Stewart, from Stuck Valley, Wash., to go down in their shaft and pick a pan of dirt, as they had just struck a rich streak. To my surprise it was

$283.50.

In fourteen pans of dirt they took out $1,565 right in the bottom ot the shaft, which was four by eight feet.

Clarence Berry took

to the pan. Jimmy McLain

took out over

$200

to the pan Frank

Physcator took out

$135

$125

15.

during the remainder of

to the pan

four boys from Naniamo took as high as

tc the pan. They were the first

men to get a hole down to bed rock and get any pay. They had Nos.

In fact, big pans were being

taken out on nearly every claim on the creek, and one and two hundred pans were common. On April

$495,

Clarence

Berry took in one pan thirty-nine ounces, or

and in two days panned

out over $1,200. April

some boys on No.

we heard that

30,

Eldorado, had

struck it rich and taken out

$800

$6,000

in one

pan. This was the banner pan of the creek, and Charles Meyers, who had the ground, told me that if he had waited to pick the dirt he could have taken one hundred ounces just as easy. "Jimmy McLain took out $11,000 during the winter just in prospecting the dirt. Clarence Berry and his partner, Anton Slander, panned out about the same in the same manner. Mrs. Berry used to go down to the dumps every day to get dirt and carry to the shanty and pan it herself. She has over $6,000 taken out in that manner. "Mr. Lippin, from Seattle, lias a rich claim, and his wife has a sack of nuggets worth

$94,000

for the

winter. Mr. Lippin, so I am told, has cleared up

$54,000.

Louis Rhoades, of

Bonanza, has cleared up

$40,000.

Clarence Berry and Anton slander have cleared up

$13^000

for the win

ter. This is probably the richest placer ever known in the world. They took it out so fast and so much of it that they did not have time to weigh it with gold scales. They took steelyards and all the syrup cans were filled."

The fare to Dawson City from San Francisco is

$150,

least

and it will cost at

to transport supplies for one

man. The steamer Excelsior will leave here for Alaska on July

28th,

and already her

passenger accommodations are engaged. This will be the last trip this year. She goes to St. Michael's, at the south of the Yukon, and transfers passengers and freight to a river steamer, from where they are carried

2,000

miles to Dawson

City. Overland the route is about

$15

000

$100,000,

made in less than twelve months,' he deems himself entitled to a trio to Michigan.

The miners who came on the steamer repeat the advice given by the men who went to San Francisco on the Excelsior. They say that no man should enter the Yukon country without supplies for a year. The necessary outfit costs at least

600

miles from Juneau, and the majority of the miners rushing to the new Eldorado will go that way. The cold weather commences about the middle of September and lasts until May. The passengers on the Excelsior will rcach Dawson City about Sept. 1, and will have to do the prospecting in the snow.

Mr. Ladue advises people to wait until next spring before going up, as the facilities for carrying them will be greatly improved then.

The fields are estimated to be worth •f.70,000,000. Dawson City is only a few months old. The descriptions given by the returned miners make it a typical mining town, with everything but guns. Laborers, it is asserted, are paid as high as

a day, but the advice is

given that no man can afford to go to the new camp without from

$500

to $1,-

with which to support himself and insure the possibility of returning in case of adversity. Living, of course comes high. The region produces little or no fruit or vegetables. The meat of the caribou and the moose is sometimes scarce, and there are seasons when no salmon can be obtained.

CH THE KLONDYKE.

Here's Information for Tenderfeet teiuplating the Join

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Washington special: The fabulous reports of placer mining in Alaska are fully credited by scientists in Washington. Profs. Tittman and Pratt, of the

^... »iuu. "Lilian auu rait, OI tile I United States coast survey, have trav- L.Free Press. eled extensively in Alaska. They de- I ''The hammock fad revived with me rlnrp that \C1nnA~h-* ... clare that the Klondyke reports are borne out by their own investigations in Alaska. They are not in the least surprised to read accounts of the amount of gold dust brought to San Francisco this week from the placers along the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia.

Colonel Preston, the director of the mint, also confirms the statement of the amount of gold dust deposited at the San Francisco mint. The director says that he is advised officially that st.n other shipments will soon be forwarded from Seattle to New York and his books show that $1,200,000 has been taken from the Alaska placers within a very short time.

The general opinion of Washington experts is that there is a limitless area of unexplored gold fields in Alaska. The gentlemen of the coast survey state that while traveling in that territory they have frequently seen their Indian guides pick up dirt on the journey, and in a pan wash out large deposits of gold dust.

The correspondent has secured some reliable data upon these various points. Those who contemplate a trip to the various Alaskan mining settlements, or are interested in the published reports concerning these mines, will find herein information that is entirely reliable. In order to reach that portion of Alaska known as the Yukon region, the traveler has the choice of two distinct routes. He can ascend the Yukon river or he can start at the head-waters and descend the stream. The second is the common and the' nearest way to the mines." By that route the point of departure for the mines is Juneau, which is the most thrifty settlement in Alaska.

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Juneau is a seaport and mining town, of two thousand inhabitants. It has schools and churches, three newspapers, water-works, electric light plant, two good wharves, large mercantile houses, good hotels, paved streets and fire and hose companies. Steamers touch Juneau every week from Seattle, 967 miles below. At Juneau the traveler should provide himself with the proper outfit for a journey across the mountains. As everything must be carried in shoulder packs, only what is abso lutely essential should be taken. Long experience has taught the dealers at Juneau the exact articles needed for the journey, and their judgment can be followed safely. Leaving Juneau, Talya, one hundred miles distant, is reached by a small steamer. From Talya to Lake Linderman, or Lake Bennett, is twentyseven miles. This must be made afoot. There is a delay at the lakes. The traveler must there construct his boat, in which the rest of the journey is made. A large whipsaw is one of the most important items in the Yukon outfit. With it the lumber is sawed out and the boat constructed at the lakes which form the head-waters of the Yukon.

If the trip is made in winter, boats are not made. Those who "go in on the ice," as they call it, leave Juneau about Alarch. On sleds they drag their outfit over the pass. Then they fix large sails on the sleds and sail across all the lakes until they reach the Lewis river, where they build their boats for use on the Yukon.

TlikS

that she has picked

up on the dumps. When the dumps were washed in the spring the dirt paid better than was expected. Four boys on a 'lay' in Eldorado took out $49." 000 in four months. Frank Physcator. who owned the ground and had some men hired, cleaned up

but of course no attention was paid to him, and in

18S9

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Gypsy Moth Which Has Cost Massachusetts $750,000.

The Gypsy moth is to be stamped out of the State of Massachusetts. This dangerous and destructive pest now covers an area of

200,000

-. "V-

the people of Massa

chusetts learned to their cost that a scientific warning, disregarded, becomes a matter of much regret. Thus far tlia Gypsy bug has cost Massachusetts $700,000, and it will cost a few hundred thousand more before there is an end of it. Year after year vast sums werq appropriated to stamp out the bug. ancj railway carriages and private convey, ances were stopped and fumigated, ancj in this way the pest was kept from spreading over the entire State. Thq moth is now under control, and the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Professor Fernald, says that another $500,000 or so, expended at the rate oj $100,000 yearly, should entirely rid thu State and the country of its presence. The moth devours everything green that grows, and is a most serious draw-. back to agriculture. Professor Fernald thinks that by

1910

natcd.

'S.-'-V

square miles,

but its ravages are not nearly so extensive and costly as they were a few years ago. The United States never had a complaint against the Gypsy bug until a meddling French etomologist, one Leopold Trouvelot, brought some specimens to this country for experiment. The "experiment" was a glorious success, for Massachusetts became covered with the bugs, which multiplied faster than the human mind can conceive. That was thirty years ago. In

1870

Prof. C. V. Riley, the State etomologist of Misosuri, called attention to the growth of the pest in New England,

it can be extermU

LIFE IN A HAMMOCK.

His Experience Was Enjoyed Only by the Ones Who Were Looking On.

This Woodward avenue man got down to business by the least frequented route, and his first order for the day was that he was not receiving, for he was practically packed in cotton and the pungent odor of arnica pervaded the air in his vicinity, says the Detroit

as soon as the warm weather arrived in earnest," he confided to his partners. "I have had a conviction for several years that I could ride any style or make of hammock that the geaius of man has devised. You know how it is with a boy on stilts. He wants them hitrher and higher till he can thump along looking into second-story windows. I had the same ambition as to hammocks. I aspired to get up where the air is purer and the sense of swinging free between heaven and earth is so pronouncd as to be unmistakeible. "That's the reason I swung my hammock from the roof of the upper veranda to the limb of a big elm tree in the back yard. It was something of a fca to mount the thing, and the operation was always attended by some danger and a large crowd that I pretended escaped my notice. Once located I felt free fiom all mundane annoyances. But the other morning the tree mixed up with a lively squall. The storm king tossed the branches wifdly and the hammock was right in it. Talk about being rocked in the cradle of the deep! I was jerked and yanked and juggled until I lost all reliable ideas of current events. The guy rope at the veranda gave away with a snap. The branch reacted as the strain was removed. I shot heavenward, the hammock cracked like a whip, every joint in me seemed to start u« der the strain, and then I crashed through the branches as if 1 had been dropped from a balloon. That's the reason I look as if I had been run through a carding machine and smell like a free dispensary."

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LABORIEAS

ISSUE AN* AI'PKAI, ASKJN( ., FOIIKISGMKX TO Assign STRIKING BIIXKHS

7^Ul

P'CU,re

Indignation Sleeting. Ue i,cllI Denounce Injunctions.

Wheeling, \V. Va„ special: What

dared to be the most important and iarl"

est gathering of the heads of labor organ izations of America ever held now'"

session in this city. It is the conference

of labor leaders called last week

jy res

ident M. D. Ratchford, of the

Uni

Mine Workers, and approved by l'resident Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, of which the miners' organization

is a part. The purpose of the conference is to aid in a speedy and successful termination of the great coal .strike.

SH-

sions of the conference were held during

the day and tonight, but until the night session was held little had been accomplished. At the night session the report of the committee was received in |,e form of an appeal to worki.onen, whkli was adopted, as follows: "A wail 01 anguish mingled with des. peration, arises from the bowels of the earth and the miners cry for relief, for some degree of justice, and touches the responsive chord in the hearts and consciences of the whole people. Drudging at wages when employed which are inadequate and portend misery, starvation and slavery, the miners are confronted with a condition by which their scant earnings are denied them except through the company 'pluck-me-stores.' which outshylock the worst features of the nefarious system, is a stigma 011 the escutcheon of our country and a. blot on our civilization. "We, the representatives of the trades unions and of all organized labor of the United States, in convention assembl-d to consider the pending strufjrrle of the miners for wages suiilcient to enable them to live and to enjoy at. least some degi of the necessities of life, an- determined to foiover put a stop to a state of starvation in which they are now engulfed. The deplorable condition of the miner:- is well known to all our people. They live in hovels, unable to buy sufficient bread to ward oft' starvation, in many cases ii'H sufficiently clothed to cover their nakedness, and their children unfit to attend school because of lack of food and clothing. making them a danger to the future stability of our Republic. We fell assured that all men and women who love their families or who have one spark of human sympathy for their fellows cannot fail to give all the aid In their power to enable the miners to win their present battle. "The representatives of the miners have been restrained by injunction when exercising their fundamental right of public assembly and free speech to present to the world their grievances. We, as American citizens, resent this interference with the rights guaranteed to us under the Constitution. In the ordinary affairs of life all enjoy privileges and rights which constitutions neither confer nor deny, but the guarantee of the right of public assembly and free speech was intended to give opportunity to the people or any portion of them to present the grievances from which they suffer anil

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which they aim to redress. "We denounce the issuance of injunctions by the judges of West Virginia. Pennsylvania and other States as wholly unjustified, unwarranted, anil unprecedented. more especially in the absence of any exhibition or manifestation force on the part of the outraged miners. \Y call on the Governor of West Virginia and on the Governors of all other States and on all public officials for full and ample protection in the exercise of our rights of free speech and public assemblage. We have no desire to trespass on the rights of any one and we demand protection in the exercise of those rights handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. We recommend that indignation meetings be held throughout tile country to give expression to the demnation of the unwarranted injunction in interfering with the free rights of free assemblage and free speech, and we also extend sympathy and support to "the mine workers to the utmost extent. "We hereby call on each national anil international organization of labor to send representatives to act for and by the direction of the united workers as organizers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania .md such other States as may be neces-arj. Fully imbued with the heroic struggle which the miners are making for ire womanhood and Innocent childhood. fo* decency, for manhood and for civilization and with consciousness of the justice of their cause and of the responsibility of their actions, we call on the

mass •Mire eon-

worklngnun

of our country to lend all possible ass— ance to our suffering, struggling fell workers of the mines and to unite in d. fense of our homos, our rights, our c.u zenship and our country." /iV-i

Only Six Widows Left.

San Diego, Cal., special: .»lrs. Lovcy Aldrich, one of the seven surviving widows of the revolutionary soldiers who in the war of 177C. died at the

fought home of her son, E. C. city, Monday afternoon, was born at San Bornton.

Aldrich. in this Mrs. Aldrich

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21), 1800, and was consequently in her nine-ty-eighth year at the time of her death.

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